If his past performance + Project 2025 + Musk haven’t combined to convince you that the first win was a surprise to everyone and his handlers are far more ready this time around, you are as deluded as those who voted for him.

• Democrats spent four years trying not to piss off R too much by doing anything about Jan 06 (among other things), then 2 months trying to woo R votes

• R spent four years getting ready for this, and are ready to tear shit down. Shit will go downhill rapidly after Jan 20.

He’s worthy of our attention. Stupid and assholish or not, he’s literally the most powerful man on the planet (aside from Elon Musk) right now.

Infighting among all those trying to deploy him as their personal attack dog is about the most hopeful thing we have right now.–

they’ve duplicated the censorship thing that reddit likes to do with defederations

I disagree that defederation is censorship, but no worries, we don’t have to agree! However:

i switched to lemmy.ml since it doesn’t defederate with anybody

https://lemmy.ml/instances

If you switch to the “blocked” tab you’ll see that this is absolutely not true.

One of my primary criteria when I needed to make a new lemmy account (due to problems with my original instance) was to be sure I picked an instance that had pre-emptively defederated from Threads. (as .ml does, but there are a lot more in that list)

That’s all well and good, but can we talk about proper use of this meme template?

She said building up the middle class would be a defining goal of her presidency,

Go on Kamala, you are making me hope you might be better than just “not trump.” Let’s hear some details that will be resistant to the 1% and their greed and get prices under control.

When the rest of us get taxed it’s just how society works. When billionaires get taxed, now it’s a “scheme.”

You know how I know my maga relative lost everything he tried to “invest” in crypto? Because he suddenly STFU about it.

Exactly true.

The puritans were the maga of the time.